There is no sincerer love than the love of food. — George Bernard Shaw Since the prior week, something miraculous has happened: there’s food in my refrigerator. As a graduate student, my shopping cart often consists of ramen, peanut butter, and a six-pack of PBR. But as of last Saturday, I have vegetables and hamburgers, sandwich…
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle I’m going to describe a psychological state, and then let’s see if you can guess the type of situation that caused it: Your heart is beating faster than usual, and you’re taking bigger, even faster breaths. If asked, you’d say you feel very…
Whether it’s welcome or welcome back, below I’ve provided five blog posts (okay, I couldn’t help adding a sixth) that I believe capture the essence of this website. With hundreds of articles on this site, it can be hard to comb through all the content to get an idea for what it’s like — and…
I am rooted, but I flow. — Virginia Woolf Like much of science, it began with an observation and then some curiosity. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (a social psychologist whose name you probably pronounced Mih… Cszz…) first noticed a strange phenomenon with a painter friend of his: when his friend’s painting was going well, the man would…
Great ideas alone don’t cause progress; it is the spreading of those ideas that does. — (Teeny & Petty, 2017) A couple years ago, I wrote a post about my Master’s Thesis; now, however, that work has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed psychology journal. Cue the confetti, balloons, and dancing elephant! Since I started…
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey On Netflix, I sometimes worry that I spend more time looking for movies than I actually spend watching them. Actually, I’m pretty sure I do. From movie selection to sock shopping to deciding which toe nail to…